Is it just you? You son(s)ofabitch. All you can do is gleefully post about the trauma and elimination of people's careers, whether law students starting or experienced attys getting laid off. Fuck off ATL.

The downturn is the best thing that could have happened to this site, as it provides endless material for you to exaggerate and harp on while real people are left in the cold. It must be nice to finally not need to rely on Lat's cleverness or ability and just spew inflammatory/smug/self-satisfied crap into the internet. I hope there is a special circle in hell reserved to pop-media, and a very hot sub-corner for useless derivative idiots who run once great blogs into the ground.

can we automatically delete or at least disemvowel the first posts? please?

That article about summers is way off. First, it's an associateship, not an internship. Also, it's still a summer program. Everyone knows this whole economy thing is going to be over by fall 2010, so all the summers are still getting offers, duh.

Lisa Madigan's actually hot,
But her campaign against craigslist is not.
If they'd bowed to her clout
Then I'd be without
The fifty-buck blowjob I just got.
--Above the Limerick

I always donate a portion of my "John money" to charity. It makes me feel good coming and going.

Summer associates won't be "working hard" this summer. Sure, the party is over. But there is nothing to do. At all. We are going to sit around, thumbs firmly up our asses, staring at each other.

Kash, you're the best at these.

Methinks 2 and 4 forgot to eat their prunes this morning.

This can't be true. There is no way.

I think I missed where profiting from provision of sexual services was legally OK if you donated the profits...

Obama's secret plan to combat swine flu is to force us to all become Islamic!

2- Would you like some cheese with your wine?

I missed the part where it is ok to profit from pounding your secretary in the ass.

7 has it right. Working hard doing what, exactly? Most associates I know would like more work themselves - delegating to summers is far down the list of priorities.

This summer is going to be brutal, I suspect. Everyone is cutting the budget for summer events, so summers will sit around the office all day. Meanwhile, the associates are all hoarding work, so they won't have anything to do in the office either. Except pray for an offer I guess.

Folks, $1400/month is NOT ANYWHERE NEAR A LOT OF MONEY for an apartment in Boston. Yeah, NYC is more expensive, but SF and Boston are always in a contest for runner-up. $2000 will barely get you into Back Bay, Beacon Hill, or (increasingly) the North End or good chunks of Cambridge. Last year, the building I lived in was chock-full of BU Law students putting out in the mid-$2000's for one bedrooms in a new building in the Fenway.

Quincy isn't so hot, but if the place was near the Red Line and fairly new, $1400 is a reasonable amount.

"But we feel a strange journalistic urge to fan the flames of panic."

/you're not journalists.

16, when I was a student at Harvard, I paid $600/month for a shared apartment within walking distance. That is all.

From Forbes: "All this at the salary of a first-year attorney, the equivalent of more than $100,000 a year." ATL, was this written in 1998? Seriously, they should have you proofread their articles!

The Forbes article was obviously aimed at firms like Latham, it'll be business as usual at actual top firms.

18: the key word being "shared".

When I was at HLS, I paid $725 for an apartment (actually the first floor of a house) and didn't share. It was near Davis Square in Somerville, but still walkable to campus at least in nice weather. (and it was in the 1990s, but that's another story).

18,

I lived near Harvard while I was a student at YLS just so I could live near the people I pwned. See, e.g., you. I didn't mind the drive at all.

16 - Ha ha, nice "knowledge" of Boston. Markoff lives in Quincy, not Boston. QUINCY. A slightly gentrifying, blue-collar/Asian suburb that's about 8 miles from downtown Boston and next to Dorchester. There are a few "luxury" buildings in Quincy, of which Highpoint is one. $1400 is definitely overpriced for Quincy.

22, sorry about your school's 92% New York bar passage rate, bro.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh2sWSVRrmo

Allowing it on Craig's list keeps it off of the streets and out of our faces. Its the next best thing legalizing it.

I also hear Markoff frequently took his fiance to LUXURY dinners at Red Lobster and Olive Garden.

What a spoiled prick

$1400 for a "luxury" apartment? I'm in the wrong "super-duper-cool" city.

Though, since I no longer have a job or a career, I'll be moving back into my parents' suburban sprawl home when my savings runs out in approximately September.

--$3300 in SF (and it's not _that_ nice)

Did we somehow miss the NYT article about the upcoming Supreme Court case on the Voting Rights Act? Unless I'm mistaken, it features a lovely photo of Michigan Law Professor Ellen Katz in, of all places, the dining hall.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/28/us/28voting.html?ref=us